Proensa

Proensa
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 353
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781681370309
ISBN-13 : 1681370301
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Proensa by : George Economou

It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”

Proensa

Proensa
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 353
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781681370316
ISBN-13 : 168137031X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Proensa by : George Economou

It was out of medieval Provence—Proensa—that the ethos of courtly love emerged, and it was in the poetry of the Provençal troubadours that it found its perfect expression. Their poetry was also a central inspiration for Dante and his Italian contemporaries, propagators of the modern vernacular lyric, and seven centuries later it was no less important to the modernist Ezra Pound. These poems, a source to which poetry has returned again and again in search of renewal, are subtle, startling, earthy, erotic, and supremely musical. The poet Paul Blackburn studied and translated the troubadours for twenty years, and the result of that long commitment is Proensa, an anthology of thirty poets of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries, which has since established itself not only as a powerful and faithful work of translation but as a work of poetry in its own right. Blackburn’s Proensa, George Economou writes, “will take its place among Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid, Golding’s Metamorphoses, the Homer of Chapman, Pope, and Lattimore, Waley’s Japanese, and Pound’s Chinese, Italian, and Old English.”

Troubadour Poems from the South of France

Troubadour Poems from the South of France
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Publisher : DS Brewer
Total Pages : 310
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1843841290
ISBN-13 : 9781843841296
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Troubadour Poems from the South of France by : William Doremus Paden

Gourmetour

Gourmetour
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 862
Release :
ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924110485525
ISBN-13 :
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Synopsis Gourmetour by :

Day

Day
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Publisher : Geoffrey Young
Total Pages : 904
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1930589204
ISBN-13 : 9781930589209
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Day by : Kenneth Goldsmith

Poetry. "I am spending my 39th year practicing uncreativity. On Friday, September 1, 2000, I began retyping the day's NEW YORK TIMES word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner, page by page." With these words, Kenneth Goldsmith embarked upon a project which he termed "uncreative writing", that is: uncreativity as a constraint-based process; uncreativity as a creative practice. By typing page upon page, making no distinction between article, editorial and advertisement, disregarding all typographic and graphical treatments, Goldsmith levels the daily newspaper. DAY is a monument to the ephemeral, comprised of yesterday's news, a fleeting moment concretized, captured, then reframed into the discourse of literature. "When I reach 40, I hope to have cleansed myself of all creativity"-Kenneth Goldsmith.

The Serpent and the Rose

The Serpent and the Rose
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 308
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0765351749
ISBN-13 : 9780765351746
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Serpent and the Rose by : Kathleen Bryan

A remarkable new voice in fantasy begins an epic of the war between Order andChaos, in the first volume of a new trilogy.

Lark in the Morning

Lark in the Morning
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 723
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226429335
ISBN-13 : 0226429334
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Lark in the Morning by : Robert Kehew

Robert Kehew augments his own verse translations with those of Pound & Snodgrass, to provide a collection that captures both the poetic pyrotechnics of the original verse & the astonishing variety of troubadour voices.

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature
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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Total Pages : 594
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781580442084
ISBN-13 : 1580442080
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature by : Robert A Taylor

Although it seemed in the mid-1970s that the study of the troubadours and of Occitan literature had reached a sort of zenith, it has since become apparent that this moment was merely a plateau from which an intensive renewal was being launched. In this new bibliographic guide to Occitan and troubadour literature, Robert Taylor provides a definitive survey of the field of Occitan literary studies - from the earliest enigmatic texts to the fifteenth-century works of Occitano-Catalan poet Jordi de Sant Jordi - and treats over two thousand recent books and articles with full annotations. Taylor includes articles on related topics such as practical approaches to the language of the troubadours and the musicology of select troubadour songs, as well as articles situated within sociology, religious history, critical methodology, and psychoanalytical analysis. Each listing offers descriptive comments on the scholarly contribution of each source to Occitan literature, with remarks on striking or controversial content, and numerous cross-references that identify complementary studies and differing opinions. Taylor's painstaking attention to detail and broad knowledge of the field ensure that this guide will become the essential source for Occitan literary studies worldwide.

A Handbook of the Troubadours

A Handbook of the Troubadours
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 515
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520913004
ISBN-13 : 0520913000
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis A Handbook of the Troubadours by : F. R. P. Akehurst

This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning of the history of modern European verse, the troubadours were the prime poets and composers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the South of France. No study of medieval literature is complete without an examination of the courtly love which is celebrated in the elaborately rhymed stanzas of troubadour verse, creations whose words and melodies were imitated by poets and musicians all over medieval Europe. The words of about 2,500 troubadour songs have survived, along with 250 melodies, and all have come under intense scholarly scrutiny. This Handbook brings together the fruits of this scrutiny, giving teachers and students an overview of the fundamental issues in troubadour scholarship. All quotations are given in the original Old Occitan and in English. The editors provide a list of troubadour editions and an index, and each chapter includes a list of additional readings. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This book is a reference volume and a digest of more than a century of scholarly work on troubadour poetry. Written by leading scholars, it summarizes the current consensus on the various facets of troubadour studies. Standing at the beginning

The Songs of Peire Vidal

The Songs of Peire Vidal
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 278
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0820479225
ISBN-13 : 9780820479224
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Songs of Peire Vidal by : Peire Vidal

Peire Vidal, one of the most celebrated of the Occitan troubadours, was a favorite performer at the courts of France, Spain, Italy, Malta, and Palestine during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His witty and humorous love-songs and satires provide a fascinating insight into the courtly society of his times. This book includes the first English translation and commentary of the complete works of Peire Vidal. It is a useful and accessible text for students and specialists of medieval literature.